Even Pep Guardiola doesn’t want to be associated with tiki-taka any more. “I loathe all that passing for the sake of it, all that tiki-taka,” he said to Martí Perarnau in Pep Confidential, published in October. “It’s so much rubbish and has no purpose. You have to pass the ball with a clear intention, with the aim of making it into the opposition’s goal. It’s not about passing for the sake of it.